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Inequality Summer Institute 2001

Harvard University
June 13-14, 2001

 

W e l c o m e. . .
Welcome to our web site for the Inequality Summer Institute 2001, a workshop of the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy. 

Conference 2001

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A g e n d a
Wednesday, June  13th

8:30-9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast: 
Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl)
9:00-10:30 AM

SESSION I:
Steven Levitt
Economics, University of Chicago
"The Impact of Gang Membership on the Life Outcomes of a Cohort of Men Who Grew Up in the Housing Projects"
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Kathryn Edin
Sociology, Northwestern University
"Ethnographic Portraits of the Lives of Low-Income Non-Custodial Fathers"
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10:45-12:30 PM SESSION II:
Robert D. Putnam
Kennedy School of Government
"Diversity, Inequality, and Social Capital in America: Some Perplexing New Evidence"
  Caroline M. Hoxby
Economics, Harvard University
"Ideal School Vouchers"
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  12:30-2:00 PM Lunch: Taubman 5th Floor balcony
2:00-3:30 PM SESSION III:
David T. Ellwood
Kennedy School of Government
"Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work"
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John D. Stephens
Political Science, University of North Carolina
"Distributive Processes in Advanced Capitalist Democracies"
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3:45-5:15 PM SESSION IV:
Greg Duncan
Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
"Children and Welfare Reform"
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  Lawrence W. Mead
Politics, New York University
"Governmental Quality and Welfare Reform"
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5:15-7:00 PM Reception and barbecue in the Kennedy School courtyard

Thursday, June 14th

8:30-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast:
Taubman Dining Room (5th Fl)
9:00-10:45 AM

SESSION V:
Christine E. Eibner and William N. Evans
Economics, University of Maryland
"Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits, and Mortality"

Discussant: Lawrence F. Katz
Economics, Harvard University
 

Bruce Western
Sociology, Princeton University
"Inequality in Incarceration: Some Preliminary Estimates"
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Discussant: Steven Levitt
Economics, University of Chicago
11:00-12:00 PM Robert M. Hauser
Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"High School Dropout, Race-Ethnicity, and Social Background" (co-authored with Solon J. Simmons and Devah I. Pager)
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Discussant: Susan Mayer
Harris School, University of Chicago
12:00-2:00 PM Lunch: Taubman Dining Room (5th fl)
2:00-3:30 PM SESSION VI:
Howard Rosenthal
Politics, Princeton University
"Political Polarization and Income Inequality" (co-authored with Nolan McCarty and Keith T. Poole)
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Discussant: Theda Skocpol
Government and Sociology, Harvard University
  Richard Freeman
Economics, Harvard University
"What Me Vote?"
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Discussant: Henry E. Brady
Political Science, U.Cal Berkeley
 

Sidney Verba
Government, Harvard University
"Constructing Political Equality"
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Discussant: R. Kent Weaver
The Brookings Institution

 

 

 

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